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It’s high time we created accountability for the Trump 2.0 criminal syndicate. Ad Policy Rudy Giuliani, the face of Trump-era impunity(Drew Angerer / Getty Images) Many images come to mind when I try to picture “America’s mayor,” Rudolf W. Giuliani. He’s standing at Ground Zero. He’s unzipping his fly in the Borat sequel, lying at the pinnacle of zero-effort male sexual contempt. Dye drips down his face in a line that mimics the results on a failing polygraph test. He gropes his assistant, and a geriatric Beavis muttering grinds out of his throat: “These are Rudy’s tits.” But mainly I…

Voice of America, which for eight decades brought news to corners of the globe where reliable journalism was scarce, went dark in March after the Trump administration cut its funding and put its workers on leave.But next week, journalists for the organization, a U.S.-funded international news broadcaster, are set to return to work, its director said, after it won a court victory last month restoring its funding.The director, Mike Abramowitz, said in an email to his staff on Friday that the Justice Department had alerted Voice of America that the broadcaster’s access to its computer systems was being restored. The…

The Three Brothers Diner has been serving the Danbury, Connecticut community for the last 50 years. The family-run business, which is managed by Stanley Kallivrousis, has navigated economic uncertainty before, including the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is the decrease in consumer sentiment that’s now plaguing the Danbury hotspot. “People aren’t as jolly as they used to be,” says Kallivrousis, who’s noticed a decrease in foot traffic over the last few months and a change in eating habits among those who do come in. “People are sharing things a lot more than they used to. Nobody leaves…

There were at least two versions of the email from the arts endowment. Some said that “the tentative funding recommendation for the following application” had been withdrawn. Those emails went to groups that had already received offer letters and been recommended for grants, but had not yet gotten their official awards. Others were sent to groups whose grants had been approved, and said, “This is to inform you that the above referenced National Endowment for the Arts award has been terminated, effective May 31, 2025.” The N.E.A. did not respond to requests for comment.The future of the arts endowment has…

President Trump on Tuesday had a ready answer when reporters asked who he would like to see become the next supreme pontiff. “I’d like to be pope,” he joked to reporters at the White House. “That would be my number one choice.”He took the joke a step further on Saturday, sharing on social media what appeared to be an A.I.-generated photo of himself wearing the traditional vestments of the pope. The photo depicts him in a white cassock with a cross around his neck, his face solemn as he raises a pointed finger.The origins of the photo were not immediately…

Investor Warren Buffett told thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday that the United States shouldn’t use “trade as a weapon” and anger the rest of the world like President Trump has done with his tariffs that roiled global markets.”It’s a big mistake in my view when you have 7.5 billion people who don’t like you very well, and you have 300 million who are crowing about how they have done,” Buffett, 94, said as he addressed the topic on everyone’s mind at the start of the shareholders meeting.While Buffett said it is best for trade to be balanced between countries,…

Spectators watch a horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on April 30, 2025. Junior Alvarado, a jockey from Venezuela, makes his way to second place before crossing the finish line. Lydia Schweickart for NPR hide caption toggle caption Lydia Schweickart for NPR LOUISVILLE — As a young boy in Venezuela, Junior Alvarado wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a winning jockey. He started as what he called a “backboy” in the racing stables in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He remembered hearing about this big race called the Kentucky Derby. “We didn’t have much access to watch any…

In 2004, the investigation reached Mr. Ryan: He was accused of accepting $167,000 in cash, vacations and gifts for himself, his family and friends. Indicted on charges of fraud and racketeering, he was convicted on 18 counts after a five-month trial in 2006 and sentenced to six and a half years in prison, a term spent mostly at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. He was temporarily released in 2011 to visit his wife, Lura Lynn Ryan, in a hospital in Kankakee on the day she died of lung cancer.Scott Turow, a lawyer, author and member of the commission…

The Met Gala is Monday in New York City, and we’re counting down with some of the most iconic looks from the best dressed stars, like recent darlings Zendaya and Rihanna and all the way back to the early years.Zendaya’s first and second look, 2024 Met Gala Zendaya attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (L) Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue, (R) Aliah Anderson/Getty Images Zendaya has become a favorite at the Met Gala, and last year she was a co-chair,…

May 2, 2025 When the US imprisoned Japanese-Americans during WWII, public solidarity and community defense were how people supported the interned. Their strategies remain relevant today. Ad Policy The Matsuda family posts a sign reading “I AM AN AMERICAN” outside their grocery store in Oakland, California, responding to Pearl Harbor attacks shortly before they are relocated and incarcerated as Japanese Americans.(Dorothea Lange / Getty Images) The daily reveal of anti-immigrant actions by the US government has been spectacularly shocking. Somehow each new human rights violation, new constitutional infringement, new mistreatment, new indignity, new imaginative cruelty towards immigrants—documented and undocumented—manages to…